I'm on the max dosage of fanapt 24mg per day and have NO inclination to do violence to anyone. Had a bit of that TD years ago when I was on risperdol. Face twitch. Not good can be permanent.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30108220

Be careful missing any pills, drinking any alcohol or pot with it. Even just a sudden fluctuation in med levels can send things off AWOL.Mayo clinic does genetic tests now when using SSRI's and antipsychotics to see which enzyme P450 subsets you have to metabolize or not your pills and help assess how caffeine and OTC herbs can interact besides pot. Pot interferes and deactivates two major P450 subsets most of the antipsychotics use to metabolize. So if you chilled out with it AND took the wacko pills it targets you for trouble.About 10% of population are lacking in these pathways any way which a clue is it takes alot more pain medicine to work and much more to put you under anesthesia.

IMHO the effects from these "magic"pills is WORSE by far than the situation they are given to "ïmprove".Suppose you took these pills for depression. You would be far worse off depressed if when you returned to your body or senses to find while you were 'absent' you slaughtered your family or town folks.

See how complicated this is?All ethical psychiatrists would be doing these specific $1500 genotyping tests you use to figure out what is safe for the community AND the recipient.Most pill pushers are just after the buck and do the least work not caring what maniac you turn into as that gives them just more business to treat. Look how much business the whole industry gets just over this shooting. They are leaping for joy...more families to get hooked on their mega expensive effects pills.

Now we have Fanapt to thank for keeping the media employed, the cops employed, the shrink wards and talk tanks over grief, etc. Look at all the jobs it just gave to all those at risk for no job Americans.

Re: Adam Lanza was on Fanapt, an antipsychotic drug with violence as a side effect

Gawker should take note of this conspiracy

"Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'dAround their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - William Blake, America a Prophecy(...also misquoted in Blade Runner by Roy Batty)

"Tempus est optimus iudex" - "Time is the best judge"

"The very word "'secrecy'" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27, 1961

RxISK.org, the first free independent website for researching and reporting prescription drug side effects, has added a Violence Zone to demonstrate and collect data on the links between prescription drugs and violent thoughts and behavior — from mild to suicidal or homicidal.

“Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret,” says Dr. David Healy, a world-renowned psychiatrist who has written extensively about the lack of data in evidence-based medicine, including in his latest book, Pharmageddon.

Healy says this is a global issue, with medical, legal, ethical, and profound public policy dimensions. “Never before in the fields of medicine and law have there been so many events with so much concealed data and so little focused expertise.”

Can prescription drugs cause you to kill someone?“Absolutely”, says Healy.

This site is an excellent resource. It needs to be kept up front in this thread, I think. Just reading the personal experiences will give you the willies, just knowing that hundreds of thousands of people in schools, offices, supermarkets, public transportation are on this poison.

************************************* “We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”-- Jorge Luis Borges~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Pompey made his preparations for the war at the end of the winter, entered upon it at the commencement of spring, and finished it in the middle of the summer."-- Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei

Re: Adam Lanza was on Fanapt, an antipsychotic drug with violence as a side effect

Hey if I get a guy in a white coat to give me some weed, will the police leave me alone if they catch me smoking some? I promise I wouldn't be angry when coming down like off whatever strange cocktail these pharmacists come up with.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3960495

I believe weed needs to be legalized just for these type situations.

Quoting: Unit3

Me too!

How many people discussed this over a bunch of alcohol and got terrible headaches the next day and a hangover!

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3960495

Plus drove a car while intoxicated and ran somebody over.

"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka

I'm on the max dosage of fanapt 24mg per day and have NO inclination to do violence to anyone. Had a bit of that TD years ago when I was on risperdol. Face twitch. Not good can be permanent.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30108220

Do you watch violent video games? Did your parents divorce when you were a young teen? Did your parents move to a new town where you didn't know anybody? Were you given all the material things you could ever desire, but isolated from family and society at large? Was your relationship with the only person in your life based on target practice and guns? Were you given drugs to shut you up so you could fit into society...or did somebody actually care and try to help you in other ways too?

I could go on and on...but you can't compare just taking the same drug with the rest of the things we are aware of about this boy's tragic life.

"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka